Hi Mark,
This is the wrong list for submitting a license for approval, that list
is License-Review. But this license was already submitted on
License-Review for approval, so it's all set.
Pam
Chair, License Committee
Open Source Initiative
On 5/16/20 2:06 PM, Atwood, Mark via License-discuss wrote:
This is a request to approve as a legacy license the "MIT No
Attribution" or "MIT-0" license as an OSI approved open source license.
Simply, the MIT-0 license is the MIT license with the attribution
requirement removed. As the MIT license is compliant with the Open
Source Definition, the MIT-0 license is as well.
SPDX page: https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-0.html
Please also follow the links about this license in that page.
The MIT-0 license is extensively used by Amazon, for sample code,
reference code, workshop code, code in blog posts, code in
documentation, and sample code published to answer sites. The
purpose of the license is to avoid imposing the cost of maintaining
attribution on customers that want to "do the right thing" w.r.t.
open source license compliance.
We find it useful because any existing license or project that claims
compatibility with MIT is necessarily also compatible with MIT-0. All
I have to say to an open source lawyer or wonk is "MIT with no
attribution requirement" and there is no more time wasted discussing it.
The text of the license is:
|Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so. THE
SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.|
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Mark Atwood <atwo...@amazon.com>
Principal, Open Source
+1-206-604-2198
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